Moving Through the Streets (hopefully on the way to a creative writing class)

February 16, 2017July 29, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 2 Comments

Moving Through the Streets, Joseph Veramu, 1994

Fiji, #4
$9.49 from alibris.com
Read January 2016
Rating: 1.5/5
Opening Line: The burly man wearing an undersized yellow tee-shirt that accentuated his bulging biceps and chest cast a warning look at Sakaraia before he took hold of his hand and stamped it with the ‘pass in’ mark.
Recommended for: credulous delinquents

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Last Virgin in Paradise: What a Girl Wants (is largely considered irrelevant)

February 6, 2017December 31, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

Last Virgin in Paradise, Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa, 1993

Fiji, #3 and Kiribati, #3
Borrowed from SF library
Read November 2016
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: drama/women’s studies double majors

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The Wounded Sea: Trump will kill us all and no one will stop him (and also there’s a book review in there somewhere)

January 28, 2017January 28, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

The Wounded Sea, Satendra Nandan, 1991

Fiji, #2
Borrowed from SF library
Read January 2016
Rating: 2.5/5
Recommended for: exiles and patriots

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Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?: Another European guy discovers the world

January 17, 2017January 17, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 7 Comments

Where the Hell Is Tuvalu?: How I Became the Law Man in the World’s Fourth Smallest Country, Philip Els, 2000

Tuvalu, #2
$0.99 from alibris.com
Read January 2016
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: ~~armchair~~ couch potato adventurers

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The Challenge: Not Accepted

January 5, 2017January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 2 Comments

The Challenge, Ruperake Petaia, 2011

Samoa, #5
Kindle, (a waste of) $4.99 from amazon.com
Read January 2016
Rating: 1/5
Recommended for: Ruperake Petaia (because I can’t imagine anyone aside from the author enjoying this particular piece of literature)

Well, that’s half an hour of my life I’m never going to get back.

Telesa: The Covenant Keeper (Boy meets girl meets fa’afafine)

December 21, 2016January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 1 Comment

Telesa: The Covenant Keeper, Lani Wendt Young, 2011

Samoa, #4
Kindle, $2.99
Read December 2015
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: Harry Potter/Insurgent crossover fanfic authors

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Where We Once Belonged: Rejecting the Polynesian Paradise

November 7, 2016January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 6 Comments

Where We Once Belonged, Sia Figiel, 1997

Samoa, #3
Borrowed from SF library
Read December 2015
Rating: 4/5
Recommended for: Women who have been groped by Donald Trump

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Leaves of the Banyan Tree

September 29, 2016January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 2 Comments

Leaves of the Banyan Tree, Albert Wendt, 1979

Samoa, #1
£0.69 from alibris.co.uk
Read December 2015
Rating 3.5/5
Recommended for: 10th grade English classes

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Tales of the Tikongs: What’s the point of all this, anyway?

July 28, 2016December 31, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

Tales of the Tikongs, Epeli Hau’ofa, 1988

Tonga, #4
Borrowed from SF library
Read November 2015
Rating: 3/5
Recommended for: Mack and the boys

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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands: Wikipedia FTW

July 13, 2016January 4, 2017 ~ Kelly Dunagan ~ 3 Comments

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean, vol. 1, John Martin and William Mariner, 1827

Tonga, #1
Free from Google Books
Read November-December 2015
Rating: 2/5
Recommended for: sticklers for detail

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